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Everybody is born as a mother’s child. When a person does not respect life, but only uses death tolls (number of 228 massacre 20,000 victims) to measure how big a historical tragedy was, how then are we to conduct a dialogue with a person like this?

— Su Tseng-chang Su Tseng-chang (2014)

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Democracy and security do not fall from heaven — they come with a cost.

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If Taiwan can establish a democracy, so can you (Mainland China).

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Kneeling before (mainland) China and begging for mercy would not make Taiwan better.

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Taiwan cannot sign such an (peace) agreement (with Mainland China).

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Once the investigation into the (Nanfang'ao Bridge) collapse is complete, anyone found to bear responsibility for the incident would be strictly punished.

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